Development of the antibody repertoire in rabbit: Gut-associated lymphoid tissue, microbes, and selection

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 214-228

  Lanning, Dennis ^a   Zhu, Xiaocui ^a   Zhai, Shi Kang ^a   Knight, Katherine L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; RABBIT ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GENE CONVERSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINEAGE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTESTINES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RABBITS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033920322     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017516.x     Document Type: Article

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